The calming effect of sausages

by Nicole Weston, Posted Nov 1st 2006 @ 9:02AM

Here's a bit of odd food-news. In Cumbria, the department of tourism has set up a dedicated telephone line, the Lakes' Escape Line, that is supposed to help people beat the winter blues when it is light out only a few hours each day. Callers will hear "cheerful sounds," including "a reading of Wordsworth's Daffodils [and] the sound of water lapping at Windermere." The sound of sizzling sausages - Cumberland sausages, of course - will also be prominently featured.

Daylight or no, you would think that people would be capable of comforting themselves with sausages at any time of year without calling a phone line to hear them sizzling in a pan. And wouldn't it be better to smell the sausages than to hear them anyway?

I got the impression that the Escape line would be a free-call, but if they charge for the sounds, residents might want to start saving up and stocking their freezers with sausages before winter sets in and they consider calling.

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Tags: british isles, comfort, comfort food, cumberland, cumberland sausages, fall, fry, frying, meat, odd, oddities, phone, sausage, sausages, sizzle, telephone, winter

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11-08-2006 @9:08AM John santoro said... I learned this simple fact of life growing up in an Italian household.
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11-07-2006 @4:08PM Judith said... IS the whole world NUTS ???? people would actually pay to hear that???? then they deserve to go nuts cause they are already!!!
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11-07-2006 @5:02PM Mike said... BEST Kielbasa in the WORLD is at Komemski's outside of Pittston PA. We can't go to Pa. without buying 50 pounds. Old world quality and value.
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11-07-2006 @4:37PM Johestina said... Sausage for me means a long, painful stay on the toilet.
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11-07-2006 @4:53PM MARIA said... COMING FROM GERMAN DESCENT, I CAN ATTEST TO THE TRUTH OF SMELLING SAUSAGES FRYING IN A PAN! MY CHOLESTEROL IS ALSO 527!
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11-07-2006 @5:02PM Larry Hirsch said... i must agree. I recently started eating Bratwurst and it calming and satisfying. My blood level have improved and it's can be served so many ways...on a bun with sauted onions,with pasta,in eggs and best done slowing away from the flame on your barbque
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11-07-2006 @5:08PM dungeater said... sausage is so full of fat. you can feel the fat in your mouth when you're chewing it. gross.
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11-07-2006 @5:13PM Ophelia Dick said... There is no good sausage
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11-07-2006 @5:11PM Johestina said... Bratwurst is disgusting. Larry, you're going to end up dieing of a heart attack. How the hell do your blood levels improve if you start eating the crappiest foods? Ahh....now I know....you're fat and don't know the difference.
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11-07-2006 @5:15PM Ophelia Dick said... Johestina... whoa!
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11-07-2006 @5:31PM Iwana Goodman said... I have never met a saugage yet that had a calming effect on my life. Maybe I just have not met the right sausage.
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11-07-2006 @5:36PM spin1200 said... Hey Larry, I AGREE! LETS ALL TOAST OUR BRATS FOR OKTOBERFEST!

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11-07-2006 @5:46PM SL said... Does one have to Eat the sausage to have calming effects?
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11-08-2006 @9:58AM Lily said... One's blood level does not "improve." Something IN the blood must improve, such as the oxygen count or lower cholesterol deposits. The statement does not make any sense (and sausages, or any meat for that matter) would NOT improve anything in someone's blood, except for maybe the protein count.

Meat is part of a healthy diet, but sausages belong in the fats and sweets tip of the food pyramid.
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